Improved sugar-crushing apparatus



A. & F. BROWN.

Sugar Cutter.

Patented Mar. 27; 1860.

Inventor:

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ADOLPH BROIVN AND FELIX BROIVN, OF N EIV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED SUGAR CRUSHENG APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2?,6 H 3., dated March 27, 15 60.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that we, AnoLrn BROWN and FELIX BROWN, both of the city of New York,

. in the county and State of New York, have in vented a new and useful Machine for Cutting Sugar; and we hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure I represents an outside view of the machine. Fig. II shows a longitudinal section, and Fig. III a plan, of the machine.

The nature of the invention consists in the arrangement of hinged plates or tables provided with knives or cutters on their under side, in combination with movable chaintables, acting together in such a manner that the loaf of sugar is first cut in two parts, and then, being gradually moved along by means of the chain-table, the parts or pieces are subjected to the action of the knives or cutters until the same are reduced to small pieces or morsels; and, secondly, in the combination of two or more cutter-plates and chain-tables, (situated behind each other,) operating together, and so arranged that the after cutterplate, as well as its corresponding table, shall have quicker motion communicated than the one situated before it, whereby less powder or sugar-meal is made than if only one large eutter plate or table is used to reduce the sugarloaf into the required small morsels.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the framing.

I3 is the main shaft, provided with a pulley, 0, through which motion is given to the machine.

a is a pinion, fast on the shaft 13, working in a larger wheel, I), fast on the shaft D.

E is a frame or plate, hinged at one end to the frames A, where the said plate turns on the pin or bolt N, fast to the frame. Near its front end this plate E is connected by means of the rods F with the crank-pins 0, and obtains thereby an up-and-down motion when the shaft D revolves.

H is an endless chain passing over the chaindrums P and Q. The chaindrum P is moved by means of pawl d, acting on the ratchetwheel 9, fast on the shaft of said chain-drum P, and said pawl receives its motion through the rod G, connected with the rod F, by which arrangement the endless chain ismoved a certain distance by each revolution of the shaft D. Below the upper part of the endless chain H, and between the chain-drums P and Q, a solid table, M, is firmly fastened to the frames A to support that part of the endless chain.

To the under side of the frame or plate E, and near its front, a knife, J is attached, running lengthwise to the machine, for the purpose of cutting the sugar-loaf in two parts. Behind this knife J knives S are attached, running across the machine; or the same may be placed diagonally, if desired.

Directly behind and a little below the end less chain H another endless chain, H, is situated, running over chain-drums I? Q, above which a second frame or plate, E, is situated, hinged to the frame A by turning upon the pin or bolt N, fast in the said frame of the machine. The plate E receives an np-anddown motion through the rods L, which are connected to the levers K K, which latter is connected, through the rod It, with the crank T, fast on the end of the main shaft B. The chain-drum 1 receives its motion through the action of the pawl d against the ratchet-wheel 9, fast on the shaft of the chain-dru1n I said pawl cl being connected, through the rod G, with the rod R, and consequently moves the endless chain II a certain distance at each revolution of the shaft B, and as the plate E receives likewise an up-anddown motion dur ing each revolution of the shaft B the motion of this plate E and the endless chain II is as much quicker than the motion of the plate E and endless chain H as is the difference between the pinion a and the wheel I). The run der side of the top part of the endless chain H is likewise supported by a solid plate or table, M, attached to the frame of the machine, and the under side of the plate E is provided with knives or cutters S, running crosswise of the machine or diagonally to the same, and are situated nearer together than the knives S on the plate E. .The sugar-loaf is placed on the chain-table H, under the longitudinal running knife J, by which the loaf is cut in two pieces, which are allowed to fall promiscuonsly on said table, and are then gradually moved along and brought under the knives S to be cut into smaller pieces. From this chain-table H these pieces fall upon the chain-table H, where they are moved along quicker and cut up by the action of the knives S on the plate E, and fall, then, off this chaintable into a box or any suitable receptacle.

The object of arranging two sets of tables and cutters and giving the second set a quicker motion is to prevent the grinding of the sugar, whereby much powder or sugar-meal is produced, principally if the pieces have been already much reduced in size.

By hinging the knife or cutter frames on one end to the frame of the machine a motion similar to the blades of shears is produced, by which, in the operation of cutting sugar, con siderable power is saved, and the crushing or powdering of the sugar prevented.

We do not claim, broadly, the combination of a movable bed or carriage with reciprocatlng cutters, as this has been used and patented in different machines for splitting wood where the knives or cutters are made to operate at right angles with the surface of the bed or carriage; but

WVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The arrangement of frames or plates provided with knives or cutters on their under side, and hinged on one end to the frame of the machine to produce an action similar to the blades of shears, in combination with a movable bed or carriage, for the purpose of cutting loaf-sugar in small pieces, substantially as described.

2. The arrangement of two or more cutterframes with their corresponding movable tables, combined together and situated behind or below each other, and giving to the latter a quicker motion than to those situated before them, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

ADOLPH BROWVN. FELIX BROWN.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. Ronnnn, JAMEs H. DAVIDSON. 

